After God

Name: After God
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ISBN: 9780226791715

ISBN-10: 0226791718

ISBN-13: 9780226791715

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark C. Taylor

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With fundamentalists dominating the headlines and scientists arguing about the biological and neurological basis of faith, religion isthetopic of the day. But religion, Mark C. Taylor shows, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike. Using scientific theories of dynamical systems and complex adaptive networks for cultural and theological analysis,After Godredefines religion for our contemporary age. Taylor begins by…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 500
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



Figures Tables


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Theorizing Religion


Religion Visible and Invisible


Against Theory


Networking Symbols


Three Ways of Being Religious



The Protestant Revolution


The Divided Subject


The Invisible Hand


Privatization, Decentralization, and Deregulation



Subjectivity and Modernity


Freedom and Representation


Figuring Subjects


World as Work of Art



Religious Secularity


Immanence and Transcendence


Incarnation and Trinity


Self-Embodiment of God


Theology and Theory



Eclipse of the Real


Deaths of God


Consuming Images


Cultivating Diversity



Recovering the Real


Counterculture


Securing the Base


Marketing the New Age


Base Closures



Religion without God


Refiguring Life


Emergent Creativity



Ethics without Absolutes


Guide for the Perplexed


Fluid Dynamics NotesIndex